Modding help — levy replenishment rate

[Leptictidium]

Hello. In my opinion, one of the things that make it relatively easy to snowball so much that the game gets boring is how fast levies replenish. No matter how many troops you lose in battle, once you sign a peace and disband them, your levies will be back at full strength within a year, ready for more conquests. In real life, too, protracted medieval wars often extracted a heavy demographic toll from the belligerents.

Therefore, I'd like to significantly slow down the rate at which levies replenish, making each war more costly and forcing the player to really weigh whether each individual war is truly worth it if it'll leave his country weakened for many years.

What files would you suggest I mod? I'm a relative newcomer to modding, so I don't know where to start. Thank you in advance.

 

[Whizzer]

Have a look in common\defines.lua, under NMilitary.

 

[Leptictidium]

Thank you. I've been looking at it and REINFORCE_RATE = 0.05 seems like the best candidate for modding.

However, I'm not sure this is the right parameter, as unraised levies seem to replenish at a much, much higher rate than 5% per year. Am I missing something here? Thanks.

 

[Whizzer]

Try adjusting LIEGE_LEVY_REINF_RATE too. You can also look at levy_reinforce_rate in common\static_modifiers.txt, in various holdings.

 

[Leptictidium]

Thank you for your help! I made those changes and they make the game far more challenging -in a positive way!